TY  - JOUR
A1  - Paetzel-Prüsmann, Maike
A1  - Perugia, Giulia
A1  - Castellano, Ginevra
T1  - The influence of robot personality on the development of uncanny feelings
JF  - Computers in human behavior
N2  - Empirical investigations on the uncanny valley have almost solely focused on the analysis of people?s noninteractive perception of a robot at first sight. Recent studies suggest, however, that these uncanny first impressions may be significantly altered over an interaction. What is yet to discover is whether certain interaction patterns can lead to a faster decline in uncanny feelings. In this paper, we present a study in which participants with limited expertise in Computer Science played a collaborative geography game with a Furhat robot. During the game, Furhat displayed one of two personalities, which corresponded to two different interaction strategies. The robot was either optimistic and encouraging, or impatient and provocative. We performed the study in a science museum and recruited participants among the visitors. Our findings suggest that a robot that is rated high on agreeableness, emotional stability, and conscientiousness can indeed weaken uncanny feelings. This study has important implications for human-robot interaction design as it further highlights that a first impression, merely based on a robot?s appearance, is not indicative of the affinity people might develop towards it throughout an interaction. We thus argue that future work should emphasize investigations on exact interaction patterns that can help to overcome uncanny feelings.
KW  - Human-robot interaction
KW  - Uncanny valley
KW  - Robot personality
KW  - Human
KW  - perception of robots
KW  - Crowd-sourcing
KW  - Multimodal behavior
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106756
SN  - 0747-5632
SN  - 1873-7692
VL  - 120
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -